
Building Credibility
The Foundation for Fundraising
Series: Fundraising Close to Home
Published: 2001
Pages: 200
eBook: 9781780441795
Paperback: 9781853395338
1 Getting started in fundraising 1
2 The importance of credibility 9
3 Building credibility 17
4 Rating yourself: nine sources of strength 34
5 Rating yourself: eighteen areas to strengthen 39
6 Rating yourself: asking others 50
7 The board of directors 63
8 The value of volunteers 74
9 Building credibility by finding allies 88
10 Building strategic alliances 97
11 Writing a long-range plan 110
12 Writing a plan: an example 119
13 Financial credibility 133
Suggested reading and Web sites 163
List of Topics 170
Acknowledgements 180
About the author 182
Elizabeth Westman Wilson
Elizabeth Westman Wilson is a Canadian consultant and writer with many years' experience in fundraising and communications, both overseas and in Canada. In the mid-1980s she acted as consultant in communications and fundraising and gave workshops in communications in eight developing countries, and is currently president, Horizons of Friendship, a Canadian agency supporting organizations in Central America and Mexico